Water temperature and marine heatwaves

This data mainly includes: a map of sea surface temperature recorded the previous day in Catalonia, which is updated daily; a chart showing the daily average sea surface temperature in the Mediterranean, along with the annual trends from recent years and historical records from 1982 to 2019; and finally, another real-time map indicating the areas currently experiencing marine heatwaves. On the same website where this data is presented, more detailed information about this phenomenon can also be found.

Date (Revision): 2025

Identifier: IDEC / temperatura-aigua-onades-calor-marines

Purpose: To have detailed observations of water temperature and marine heatwave events along the Catalan coast.

Point of contact

Catalan Institute for Research on Ocean Governance

https://www.icatmar.cat/

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Oceanographic geographical features

IDEC - llocs

Catalonia
Spain
Europe

IDEC - temes

Hub litoral
SIDL

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: No limitations

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Legal notice

Spatial representation type: Grid

Metadata language: Catalan; Valencian

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Description: The spatial extension covers the entire coastal strip of Catalonia. Temporal extent refers to the dates of the data.

Begin date: 1982

Unique resource identifier: ETRS89 UTM zone 31 North (EPSG:25831)

Distribution format

PNG ()

Distributor

Catalan Institute for Research on Ocean Governance

https://www.icatmar.cat/

OnLine resource: Data visualization
Access point

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Name of measure: Compliance with INSPIRE requirements (data)

Evaluation method description: The data of this dataset do not aim to achieve compliance with INSPIRE regulations. For this reason, its conformity is not evaluated and it is declared not conformant compliant by default.

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2014-12-31

Explanation: Not conformant

Pass: No

Domain consistency

Name of measure: Compliance with INSPIRE requirements (metadata)

Evaluation method description: The compliance of the metadata is evaluated using the "INSPIRE Reference Validator" web tool. The metadata is considered correct when the only errors reported are related with the main language of the metadata file. These errors are due to the fact that Catalan is not included in the list of official languages of the European Union.

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2008-12-04

Explanation: Conformant

Pass: Yes

Statement: For the study of marine heat waves in the Mediterranean Sea, the water surface temperature is compared with historical records to detect rapid and significant changes in the time series. The sea surface temperature data used are provided by the Copernicus service (https://data.marine.copernicus.eu/es/product/SST_MED_SST_L4_NRT_OBSERVATIONS_010_004/description). The period 1982-2021 corresponds to the reprocessed product, while from 2022 onwards it is a near-real-time product.